- country, country-pop
- 30 min
- 10 tracks
- Mercury Records
The Mystery of Life is the 77th overall album by country singer Johnny Cash, released in 1991, and his last for Mercury Records. The songs featured are culled from both recent sessions and from leftovers from Cash's first Mercury session in 1986 for the album Johnny Cash is Coming to Town.
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Character
Spare, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- The Rolling Stone Album Guide3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1The Greatest Cowboy of Them All3:34
- 2I’m an Easy Rider2:37
- 3The Mystery of Life3:11
- 4Hey Porter2:21
- 5Beans for Breakfast3:18
- 6Goin’ by the Book3:20
- 7Wanted Man2:52
- 8I’ll Go Somewhere and Sing My Songs Again3:11
- 9The Hobo Song3:33
- 10Angel and the Badman2:23
10 tracks, 30 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Johnny Cash
- Label
- Mercury Records
- Released
- September 29, 1991
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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